I have a very stupid question but I was searching around and I could not find and appropriate answer . I am just looking for a nice clock application to display the time in my IRIX desktop. I turns out that I do not really like the one that comes with the operating system .

fwiw, you can right click the face of the IRIX clock (/usr/sbin/clock) to open the IRIX calendar app or set an alarm, a feature that the out-of-the-box version of the IRIX xclock (/usr/bin/X11/xclock) doesn't have. You can also make 'clock' slightly easier to find on a crowded desktop by opening it with the clock dot command. If the shipped-with-IRIX version of xclock is more to your liking, man xclock will give you a fairly long list of display/size/function options.

Now, I have another stupid question, is there anyway to load it when I login without seeing the icon of the opened application in the desktop? I mean, the icon that tells you that the clock is running, not the clock itself .

If oclock isn't already in /usr/bin/X11, you may need to install the X11 Unsupported Gifts and Demos, which can be found inside the IRIX X11 Execution Environment (with 6.5.30 that'd be the first Overlay CD).

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Here's an example with a transparent clockface shown against the default "Scatter" desktop background.

Motif is extremely configurable. Look up ".Xdefaults" and try a resource editor. I have "editres" here, maybe that comes standard with irix ? Then recondas* can direct you to the Techpubs SGI style guide which tell you how to change all the necessary settings.

* If I'm ever lost in Techpubs Forest, I know whom to call for directions !